Cannabis may stop corona from infecting other people?

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We know that the virus has no effect on some people. For instance, the cruise ship that was quarantined, many people tested positive but never experienced one symptom. I think there has to be something more to that. If we could figure out why, maybe it’d help? I’m no scientist haha

Yes, I agree that is a really interesting feature. Also makes it dangerous because a certain number of people are walking around unknowingly spreading the virus. I've heard of others who've tested positive yet had symptoms equivalent to a mild cold.

In addition to what you've mentioned we also know there is a gender effect with men far more likely to die and also ethnicity/race seeming to be relevant. There's got to be something going on there that would help us understand it. Like you say, maybe it would help.

We desperately need more general testing, not just of the very sick in hospital, but a random selection of the population (including healthy people), then we'd have a better idea how many people have had it with no/mild symptoms. From there I'm sure it must be possible to start looking at those individuals to find out what is different compared to those who got very sick or died. In my country we have the infuriating situation that the government have contracts for testing and that's only taking place in a few centralised facilities. However there are universities with labs offering to help and nothing is being done. It is ridiculous. 

One thing that does seem relatively certain is that people who are infected with a high amount of virus, e.g. health workers, have more severe symptoms than those presumed to have had a lower exposure (albeit still enough to make them sick). I believe inhaling just 10 viral particles is enough to catch the disease, but those looking after sick people can be exposed to thousands, or millions of particles.